Drupal 7

Drupal 7 Hosting Cookbook

Drupal is an open source content management systems that is rapidly gaining favour in the enterprise. The Drupal 7 Hosting Cookbook walks through the steps required to build a comprehensive hosting environment suitable for enterprise implementation.

This cookbook is intended for systems administrators, Drupal developers and anyone interested in hosting Drupal in an enterprise environment. Links to background information are sprinkled throughout the cookbook, so don't worry if you are not yet an expert. There will be opportunities to learn as you go.

Install Drupal 7

Now that you've got all the pieces in place, let's install and configure Drupal 7. Go to the Drupal Installation Guide for detailed installation instructions.

Create settings.php and write-enable for the Drupal installer:

sudo cp /var/www/www.example.com/sites/default/default.settings.php /var/www/www.example.com/sites/default/settings.php
sudo chmod a+w /var/www/www.example.com/sites/default/settings.php

Set user and group ownership for all Drupal files and directories: